Sheppard-Yonge (TTC)

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Coordinates: 43°45′40.96″N, 79°24′39.36″W

Sheppard - Yonge
4800 Yonge Street
Opened March 29, 1974 (Yonge-University-Spadina line)
November 24, 2002 (Sheppard line)
District North York
Line Yonge-University-Spadina line
Sheppard
Next station Yonge-University-Spadina line:
≅0.9 km north to North York Centre (1 min.)
≅2.1 km south to York Mills (3 min.)

Sheppard line:
≅2.0 km east to Bayview (3 min.)
Daytime Connections 84 Sheppard West, 85 Sheppard East, 97 Yonge, 98 Willowdale Senlac, 196 York University Rocket
Night Connections 320 Yonge, 385 Sheppard East
Daily Boardings 72,200 (YUS line)
42,750 (Sheppard line)
114,950 Total
Rank 2007-08 3rd busiest out of 69
Platforms Centre platform on YUS line, side and center platforms on Sheppard line (center not in use) 
Accessibility 7 elevators 
Washrooms Public washrooms

Sheppard-Yonge is a station on the Yonge-University-Spadina and Sheppard Lines of the subway system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the third busiest subway station in the system, after St. George and Bloor-Yonge, serving a combined total of approximately 112,720 people a day.

It is located on Sheppard Avenue East/West at 4800 Yonge Street. The original Sheppard station on what was then called the Yonge-University Line opened in 1974, in what was then the Borough of North York; the station was expanded and renamed in 2002 with the opening of the Sheppard Line, which begins at this station, departing eastward.

The subway extension from Eglinton to Finch was planned to open in two stages with Sheppard as the temporary terminus, but construction north of York Mills was delayed by various problems and in 1973 York Mills was opened as the temporary terminus instead; Sheppard station then opened together with Finch in 1974. The H-2 class subway cars delivered in 1971 included destination signs for "Sheppard via downtown" on the expectation that it would be a terminal station.

Sheppard-Yonge station is integrated with a bus terminal at street level. The bus terminal was outside the fare-paid area before the Sheppard line was built.

The public art in the station, entitled Immersion Land and created by the artist Stacy Spiegel [1], consists of panoramic posterized murals created from 150 digital photos rendered onto single-colour mosaic tiles. The artwork depicts rural scenery along Yonge Street somewhere between Lake Ontario and North Bay, and is located on the upper (Sheppard line) platform level.

Much like the Bloor-Yonge station, this station was renamed from "Sheppard" to "Sheppard-Yonge" when the Sheppard line opened in 2002. Unlike Bloor-Yonge, where the signs on the Yonge line platforms still read "Bloor" and those on the Bloor line read "Yonge", Sheppard-Yonge is given its full name on both sets of platforms; all existing signs within the station were changed to give the new name (although signs in other stations may still refer to it as "Sheppard"). Signs in other stations along the Sheppard line also refer to the station as Sheppard-Yonge. Destination signs on Sheppard Line trains have shown the station both as "Sheppard-Yonge" and as "Yonge Street".

When the Voice Automation System was added on the Y-U-S Line, the stop announcements referred to the station as Sheppard.

A connecting track from the southbound Yonge-University-Spadina Line, used only if cars or work equipment need to be transferred between the two lines, curves around to a point 500 metres west of Yonge, where the Sheppard line tunnel actually begins. This provides an area where trains can be stored clear of the line.

In the station, the Sheppard Line tracks cross above the Yonge line. The Sheppard Line station has platforms on the outer sides of the tracks, but there is also a roughed-in centre platform [2]. Should the station become a busy transport hub, this platform will be opened and trains will open all their doors, allowing riders to enter on one side and exit on the other to improve efficiency.

Trains normally pull into the southern platform to load and discharge passengers, before returning in the direction from which they came; the northern platform is used only by trains which are going out of service and so must discharge their passengers without allowing more aboard.

Just east of the station, the Sheppard Line converges with a second junction track from the northbound Yonge-University-Spadina Line.

Passengers looking across the tracks would see the roughed-in centre platform and the poster-style depiction of rural scenery
Passengers looking across the tracks would see the roughed-in centre platform and the poster-style depiction of rural scenery
Escalators from eastbound platform down to north-south platform; the public art can be seen at the back
Escalators from eastbound platform down to north-south platform; the public art can be seen at the back

Access to Sheppard-Yonge can be made at:

  • Sheppard Centre
  • Nestle Building at Sheppard and Beecroft
  • an outdoor elevator entrance at the northeast corner of the intersection of Sheppard and Yonge.
  • outdoor entrances on the north and south side of Sheppard, just west of Yonge.
  • Via the Procter & Gamble building, located on the east side of Yonge, just south of Sheppard.

[edit] Tenants

  • Cinnabon - located below the bus platform and platform level on the Sheppard Line
  • Gateway Newsstand

[edit] Surface connections

  • 84 Sheppard West
  • 85 Sheppard East
  • 97 Yonge
  • 98 Willowdale Senlac
  • 196 York University Rocket
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